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That's not what he means by PC. He means an open standard that anyone can build against with comparability between products.

That’s exactly what it was. Two other vendors were going to launch as well.

The Phoebe's launch OS (RISC OS 4) was codenamed "Ursula". Unfortunately, shortly into its development, the Phoebe went on an (indefinite) break.

In 1998, it would be an excellent opportunity to use Linux. At the time, I was playing with Apple's MkLinux on PowerMacs.

Very interesting, the reason for cancelling seems to largely hold true today.